Seeking Home: Lost and Found

Summary: It's the year 2135. Humans are a dead race in the minds of most people living in the galaxy. However, one human, Nikita, seeks more of her kind after discovering a human Halfling.

Prologue: The Halfling

Nikita was the only
human she knew that was alive still. Humans were an extinct species where the
galaxy was concerned. All of them killed when the Sway attacked the Earthlings two home planets,
Terra and Red Vale were destroyed 19 years ago.

No one was really that
concerned with it though, humans had only gotten involved with other species
about 50 years before their demise, and were seen as archaic and naïve. However
they were seen as exotic with how many different skin color and language variations
existed among their people. That didn’t appear in most other cultures due to
interbreeding and homogenization of their home planets.

However what most don’t
know about humans is that they weren’t as stupid as they seemed to think. The
destruction of humanity was viewed as the general stupidity of the human race
but that wasn’t true. Terra and Red Vale’s communications were cut so the two
planets didn’t realize that they were being destroyed by the Sway.

The Sway was a
mysterious and dangerous force for Nikita. Her mother, who had escaped the
slaughter, had told her that they were the main governmental force in their
galaxy. Nikita’s mother had also told her that they had felt threatened by
humans, and that was why they were destroyed.

Her mother had been a
spaceship mechanic when this began. She was usually brought along on trips made
by humans, but right before the slaughter happened she had accepted a six month
contract with some Elliate merchants.

Elliates are one of the
richest races, and had large heads and tall stretched looking bodies. Their
eyes were usually a piercing gold, and their skin smooth and light gray that
never seemed to wrinkle. They had feathers that were usually white or silver
that looked like hair, and only extended to the middle of their necks.

She was on the ship and
leaving when the Sway ships converged on the planet. She looked back to see the
port city she had left from being destroyed. Nikita’s mother had just become
pregnant with Nikita, and left the ship after 4 months. She had given birth to
Nikita on the planet Vivica, and had been on the move constantly. Nikita had
never had a home besides the ship her mother had bought when Nikita was an
infant. However, when Nikita was only 13 years old the Sway caught up with
them. Nikita’s mother had lured them away from her and gotten herself arrested
and killed.

Nikita had been
prepared for this situation, the few rules were: Stay put for a few weeks, do
not try to get her out, and do not go watch the execution in person.

Nikita hadn’t been able
to say goodbye or mourn. She had to survive.

6 years later and that
was all Nikita knew how to do.

She had grown little
from when she was left alone. She was very much like her mother, petite she had
called it, with large eyes, but cappuccino skin, unlike her mother, that would purple at
the slightest bump, like her mother. Whenever she saw her face she thought it was strange how
she looked. Her face was round, and she looked much younger than she actually
was, her face was relatively unchanged from when she was 15, well she thinks it
was when she was 15. There isn’t really time for birthdays when you have to
avoid the largest governmental force in the galaxy, and establish yourself as
mercenary for hire.

At 19 Nikita was well
established for someone so young. She had proved herself to be an adept thief
that can break into anything. That was more because of her technical background
from her mother and less because of just straight skill. She knew some thieves
that were just that good, and had gotten well acquainted with the underworld of
the galaxy.

She lives her life like
any mercenary does, dangerously. She goes across the galaxy steals something,
and gets it back to get payment. She has a very good track record except with
“stolen” concubines. People stopped asking her about doing those jobs after a
while.

She had a lot of
contacts in the underbelly of the galaxy, and had built up a loyal clientele.
They knew that she was secretive and they allowed her to keep her secrets as long as
she got the job done well. She had just finished a mission that required her to
steal something back from a wronged employee. She didn’t kill him like the man
had truly wanted but Nikita knew that he wasn’t really a threat because he
didn’t know where the others that had been wronged were, but the Sway wouldn’t
help them. The Sway is well paid by the major multi-planetary corporations.

She was walking into a
pub that just so happened to have a slave auction going on. She kept her ears
out looking for someone really young. She would usually do this save the really
young ones and get them somewhere safe. She bought a drink to make herself fit
in among this crowd and sat at the bar.

The man on the stage
was a sickeningly neon-bright Polychromian that was all smiles despite the reservations of morally guided head
about what they were doing. He looked like someone who was lying. Nothing of
note happened, there didn’t seem to be any really young ones this time. However
the second to last person immediately peeked Nikita’s interest.

“Well, ladies and
gentleman, and everyone in between, we have ourselves a very rare find. A
Halfling, half-canilid, half-human hybrid.” All of the excitement stopped, very
few of these people could afford being caught with a human Halfling. “Bidding
starts at 700 terens.” The Polychromian said obviously knowing the risk of
this.

A few people bid with
little enthusiasm. The highest anyone will go seems to be a 950 terens, so
Nikita jumps in on a thousand.

“One thousand terens?
One thousand? Alright sold to the little figure at the bar come up and get your
product.”

Everyone turns to see
who in their right mind would buy a human Halfling. All they saw is a figure
cloaked in darkness making their way through the crowd. They do not seem to
have a health problem or anything else. So everyone just assumes it’s a young
rich alien that feels indestructible and feels bad for the wrath that will be
visited on their family.

Nikita is handed a
leash with the collar around his neck. He is wearing a dark colored skirt with
no shoes. While slavery wasn’t banned on Generon it was frowned upon and Nikita
was glad she didn’t park too far out this time.

She hurried him to her
ship. He was completely complaint, and Nikita knew that was more likely because
of his enhanced senses picking up her scent rather than his actual personality.
Nikita opened her ship up and got him inside.

She took off her hood
and slowly showed him her face.

“You’re human?”

“Yes, and you’re half
human.”

“I thought all of the
humans died when they got destroyed by their sun.”

“We weren’t destroyed
by our sun, we were destroyed by the Sway, and my mother was the only known
one. I was already conceived when she got off the planet and she had to watch
what happened. And what about you?”

“My mother was a Lost
girl.”

Nikita felt pity
bubbling up in her, but she squashed it; she didn’t want to be pitied and she
doubted he would either. She studied him. He did have a lot of human features.
His kind are usually very hairy, but he was almost hairless compared to the
rest of his father’s race. They all had supernaturally bright amber eyes. His eyes
were blue, glowing and had slight slits. His skin was paler than Nikita’s but she
knew that skin tone variations were not strange among her people.

If his mother was a
Lost girl then that meant that she had been taken off of the planets long
before the massacre. No one would come after her because she would have been
classified dead, and the Sway wouldn’t even try to go after a Lost girl because
they knew that going into the underbelly would be bad for them.

“Why are you a slave
though? I would think that you would be among your people.”

“The children of the
lost girls don’t fight, and they certainly don’t win, even if there father is
in charge of the pack.”

“I see, so he sent you
away because you were a threat.”

“Yes, but I want to
know about my mother’s kind. Women did not have much influence with their
sons.”

“You mean humans, I can
try to help, but I only knew one human. She was my mother and died many years
ago.”

“What was the human
pack structure?”

“We didn’t really have
packs. We had families that extended many generations, and we had people that
thought similarly that we called friends. However, we haven’t had packs. Only
some animals on Terra would have packs, wolves and dogs I believe.”

“You had clans and
allies.”

“It is a little bit
more complicated than that but yes.”

“Complicated?”

“Yes because humans
were often separated by physical boundaries like mountains, rivers, oceans, and
so they developed larger groups than clans. They would speak different
languages and they created lines between themselves and called themselves
countries.”

“Oh, that sounds
strange.”

“Maybe, but that was
just how it worked on our planet.”

“I see, are there any
others that you know of?”

“Not that I know of,
but it wouldn’t be out of character for my father to beget another child on my
mother.”

“So a brother or
sister?”

“What are those?”

“Brothers are boys that
come from one or both parents, and sisters-”

“Are girls that have
come from one or both parents.”

“Exactly.”

“Do you have any of
these?”

“No, my mother only
gave birth to me, and my father died in the destruction of Red Vale.”

“I see.”

“Well we have a lot of
work to do.”

“What do you mean?”

“You are half canilid
which means you know a lot of the martial realm. However humans didn’t always
rely on brawn, even the best warriors would know how to do things like read or
write. I also am going to teach you about everything technical that I know.”

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